Table 4 Comparison of SSDEweight and SSDEBMI with SSDEreference in validation set.

From: Body physical parameters instead of water equivalent diameter to calculate size-specific dose estimate in adult chest CT

 

Overall patients

Male patients

Female patients

SSDEreference (mGy)

5.11 ± 1.62

5.45 ± 1.47

4.58 ± 1.69

SSDEweight (mGy)

5.10 ± 0.83

5.22 ± 0.92

4.79 ± 1.18

SSDEBMI (mGy)

5.01 ± 0.80

5.15 ± 0.91

4.80 ± 1.18

Za

− 0.003

− 1.550

− 1.408

pa

0.997

0.121

0.159

Zb

− 0.755

− 1.863

− 1.301

pb

0.45

0.064

0.193

  1. SSDEs were represented as M ± IQR. SSDE stands for size-specific dose estimate. aComparison of SSDEweight with SSDEreference, bComparison of SSDEBMI with SSDEreference.
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